Gingrich: Obama has 'anti-American' energy policy

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich waits to be introduced during a campaign stop on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 in Oklahoma City, Okla.

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Summary

Newt Gingrich is asserting that President Barack Obama pursues an "outrageously anti-American" energy policy that snubs the Keystone oil pipeline and puts too much stock in electric car technology to wean the country from foreign oil dependency.

WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich is asserting that President Barack Obama pursues an "outrageously anti-American" energy policy that snubs the Keystone oil pipeline and puts too much stock in electric car technology to wean the country from foreign oil dependency.

The former House speaker tells CBS's "This Morning" show gasoline prices have skyrocketed since Obama took office. He says Obama entertains a "fantasy" that the electric car "is going to liberate us from Saudi Arabia."

Gingrich is trailing Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential race.

On Tuesday, he called it "the wildest nominating process I can remember" and said he believes the race is still "wide open."

The former Georgia congressman said Obama must be made a one-term president, charging that he "routinely only obeys laws that he deems fit."

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Obama's energy policy is Solyndra. The costs of energy for the rest of us are
the consequences! Enjoying "hope and change" much?

7:38 a.m. Feb. 21, 2012

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m.g. scott

LAYTON, UT

I will give President Obama credit for agreeing to let new nuclear power plants
be built in the U.S. Something that hasn't been done since the '70s. I'm sure
that decision really made the environmental left mad. But he and many on his
side are
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8:04 a.m. Feb. 21, 2012

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Brother Chuck Schroeder

A Tropical Paradise USA, FL

And "YOU THOUGHT" Congress makes the law's, when bureaucrats do as
they please. On February 17, 2012, EPA released an evaluation of information
submitted by the Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy for satisfying
the emissions and
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